title: Judgment and memory performance for emotional stimuli in patients with alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome.
abstract: In this study we investigated whether alcoholic Korsakoff patients are impaired in categorizing neutral and emotional stimuli according to their valence and whether memory performance for this material is reduced. In a group of Korsakoff patients and a comparison group two experimental tasks--one containing emotional and neutral pictures and the other containing words-were administered. Results showed that patients had difficulties in affective judgments due to problems in classifying neutral stimuli. Memory for emotional and neutral material was impaired to a similar degree. Thus, the facilitating effect of emotional valence on memory performance is absent in Korsakoff patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. kirsten.labudda@uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Labudda
authors.forename: Saso
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Todorovski
authors.forename: Hans J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Markowitsch
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brand
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric